Elemental Exotic's possible 2015 corn pairings.

Little number 11, the one that didn't absorb it's yolk, is 3.3 grams. It's been named Pipsqueak and shed last night. It also ate a pinky head!! Took awhile but it did finally eat.

Here is Pip from this morning with a nice little lump in the belly.

I'm so glad Lars pointed me in the direction of this thread.

Hi! I produced Max and I'm so happy for you! Of course I'm sad that my holdback sibling is now probably not the super I was hoping to keep, but oh well. You got one and I produced it, so I'm still pretty stoked about that.

Congrats on Max and all his babies! And yes, he is/was (obviously was) 66% poss. het caramel. You proved him out, though.

YAY!

Pipsqueak is so cute! He's all head!

Isn't Pip just cute?! It's eaten twice now and I took some not great outdoor pictures of Pip next to a nickel for size reference.

Just fed the last group from Tavia's clutch and they all ate! Now at 10 out of 12 eating.

Originally Posted by fyrefocks

I'm so glad Lars pointed me in the direction of this thread.

Hi! I produced Max and I'm so happy for you! Of course I'm sad that my holdback sibling is now probably not the super I was hoping to keep, but oh well. You got one and I produced it, so I'm still pretty stoked about that.

Congrats on Max and all his babies! And yes, he is/was (obviously was) 66% poss. het caramel. You proved him out, though.

YAY!

I'm very happy with Max, so thanks to you too!

Yeah, I'd known he was poss het Caramel but had been thinking he was 100% het Motley, not 66%, for some reason. Super jazzed at how that turned out though, since I'd have taken the Caramel het over the het Motley in a heartbeat if it had been up to me.

In case you don't already have the information, Max's parents were both tesseras ph amel, caramel, motley. They were produced by Don and we (Lars and I) got the parents, Lars the male and me the female, from John of Colorado Corns. Lars loaned me his male who didn't prove his amel prior to the loan. I only bred my female once before selling her, so I never confirmed her ph amel at all.

The pairing produced 6 babies. 3 were tessera, 2 of which (Max included) looked like run of the mill tesseras, and one that looked different. Don advised me to keep the different one as he felt it stood the best of being the super, if there was to be a super from these babies. Oops. I also got 2 motleys and a normal pattered, I think. Could have been the other way with that ratio of non tesseras. And the babies were all wild type or caramel in color.

I kept for myself a caramel tessera male that I now think is probably also a motley since it isn't a homo/super/whatever you call it. But next year I hope to find out.

Nate, I'd be interested to see pictures of Max's sibling you held back, if you have any?

I only kept this one for myself. I sold the normal and the rest of the clutch went to Lars. There were only 4 went to him. It was a small clutch.

http://www.iherp.com/Public/Animals/...nimalID=128515

The picture is old, but his pattern is still the same.

Pipsqueak, the little Caramel Tessera that failed to absorb the yolk, is now at 4.5 grams, up from 3.3 at hatching. Checked his gender today too and he is a male. Gives us 2.10 for the Tessera clutch.
Tavia's clutch ended up 9.3.